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Quiet luxury has decamped to the Hamptons for the summer. In its place is an explosion of pink, spandex, fake tan and bleached-blonde hair. As Greta Gerwig’s much anticipated Barbie movie, starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, hits theaters on July 21, the iconic doll’s favourite shade – pink – is everywhere to be seen. Also read: Bhumi Pednekar steps into her ‘Barbie era’; Pakistani actor Hania Aamir joins trend with Diljit Dosanjh song Ryan Gosling and Margot Robbie pose for photographers at the premiere of…

Donald Trump promised to make America xenophobic again by bringing back his travel ban, a move that Rolling Stone reported he was considering in May. “When I return to office, the travel ban is coming back even bigger and much stronger than before,” Trump said Saturday during a speech to the far-right Turning Point Action conference led by Charlie Kirk. “The U.S. will not be condemned for the same fate as countries like France.” Trump while in office implemented a policy banning citizens from majority Muslim…

Communicating with your customers across channels is crucial to providing positive experiences. However, often this means regularly replicating and syncing customer data across different systems in order to deliver differentiated and personalized campaigns. But with all of this data movement, you end up stuck with a version of (not so real) “real-time” marketing data. The solution is simple: live where your data lives. Join Snowflake, MessageGears, and their joint customer…

Despite a positive upswing in electric car sales in the US over the past three months, American automaker Ford’s EV sales fell by 2.8% in Q2 from the first quarter. Ford’s electric pickup, the F-150 Lightning, was its only purely electric vehicle to see sales rise compared to last year. F-150 Lightning sales reached 4,466 in the second quarter, up 118.7% compared to just over 2K last year. Keep in mind, however, Ford began delivering the electric pickup last May, so doubling sales over the…

Map of the circulation in the west of the North Atlantic. Credit: Mathilde Jutras Changes to the flow of the Labrador Current along the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador to Nova Scotia are leading to sudden warmings or drops in the oxygen levels of the waters in several regions including the St. Lawrence Gulf and Estuary. This change has dire consequences for marine ecosystems and fisheries.…

Chemists from MIT and Duke University have innovatively increased the strength of polymers tenfold by incorporating weaker bonds into their structure, a discovery that does not alter other physical properties of the materials. This breakthrough could have a significant impact on increasing the lifespan of rubber tires and reducing microplastic waste, among other applications.By adding weak linkers to a polymer network, chemists dramatically enhanced the material’s resistance to tearing.A team of chemists from MIT and Duke…

Strength and flexibility are two opposites that usually need to be balanced in steel. But now engineers at Purdue University and Sandia National Labs have developed a new treatment that can be applied to steel alloys to make them both stronger and more ductile at the same time, which could have a range of uses in energy and aerospace.Strength is a measure of how large a load a material can withstand before it fails, while ductility measures how easily it can be extended or elongated into different shapes. Those two…

This article is part of our new women in gaming series Makers of Now.Come rain or shine, Twitch streamer and gamer Mayichi always welcomes her community with the same message: “Hi beautiful people. The stream is starting.” The message, simple and sweet, largely reflects the philosophy she applies to her channel, where she aims to make people feel like family and have a good time while playing video games, chatting about the day, and joking around.The 29-year-old, whose legal name is Maite Carrillo, is one of the…

WASHINGTON —  House Speaker Kevin McCarthy celebrated victory with a smiling jab at the Capitol Hill press corps Wednesday night.Now that the House had passed the debt ceiling bill, reporters would no longer gather outside his office every day, the Republican from Bakersfield predicted.But “I’ll still look forward when you come back. And you know what? You’ll still ask the same questions each week: ‘Do you think you can pass the bill this week?’ ‘Do you think you’ll still be speaker this week?’ “Keep underestimating…

National news distribution of aged care coverage. Note: Journalists at national news outlets wrote an average of 9.18 articles per month focused on aged care during the 33-month period from October 2018 through June 2021. The range was from 1 (in June 2021) through 23 (in November 2019). Credit: Journalism Practice (2023). DOI: 10.1080/17512786.2023.2215237 If news organizations in Australia created a 'round' for reporting on…